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The
recavery
of
Apoftatizing
profeffors
very difficult.
629
now
have
got
the power,
and
to
they
have
loll
all
their
favor
and
vigor,
and are grown formal in
their duties
,
and
all
their
favor is
gone
,
this
is faid
of
fuch as have
made
profeflion
of
Religion that
have
loft
their
favor
;
fome
do
fay
how
are
there
changed
o're
they were.
IF
fait
hove
loft
his
favor,
where-
SeePrrki;iron_
with íhall
it
be
fatted
?
how
fhall this
be
recovered
again?
fo the
piaceo
the meaning is,
it
is
not impodiible,
but,
it
is
a
rare
thisig
for
any
one
that
hath
been
a
forward
Profeflor of
Religion
,
and
hash
had vigor and
ilrength;
and now
is
grown flat and
cold,
it
is an
itnpoilìble thing
alnaoft
that
fuch
a
one
fhould be
recove-
red, it
is a
rare thing if
fuch
be recovered. Heb
6.4.
For
it
s See Dixon on<
imp
pof
ble
for
thofe who
were ont
e
enlighted,and
have tafted of the HA
6.
4.
heavenly
gift,
and.were.mude
partakers of the
holy
Ghofl,&&c.
It
is
a
moil dreadful place, yet the Scripture doth
not
mention
in
words
the
fin
againfl
the holyGhofl
,
but
lays
it
down in
a
more general
way
to
leave
them to
a
moll dreadful fear
to
take
heed that they never never
fall away
;
let
fuch
take
heed
hots
they nourish
any
corruption, where
almoll
have you
any
recovered,
any
that return after thát they
are fallen from pro
feffion
of
Religion,
and why
?
it
is fo
becaufe
that
when
they
have had
the
experience of
truth,
the truth
of
God
that
work
on
other
mens
hearts,
do no
good
to
them at
all ,
they knew
what
thefe
truths
meant
many years
ago,
but
to
many
it
awak-
ens
their
confciences,
and flirs
their
hearts
,
it
humbles
their'
fpirits
and calls
them
down,ait,i caufeth
them to
fee
the
dread-
fulnefs
of their
natural
eflate,
but
let
a
formal profeffor
that is
fain
off from
the truth
of
God
,
let
him know
fuch
things
;
he
.
hath got power over
his
confcience
,
there
is
little
efficacy
to
prevail over
it,
wherewith (hail it
be
faked
-when
the
fait
hath
loll his'favour;
it
follows
of
them,
It
is
henceforth
good
for
no
thing but
to
be call-
out ,
that is,
an
Apoflatizing profeffor
of
Religion
is an
unufeful
member
in
the Church of
God or
Common
-
wealth
,
he
is
almof
good for nothing
;
one
that
is
a
forward profeffor
of Religion
,
if
is
be
not
fruitful
,
he
is
not
good for
any
thing
;
falt when
it
bath
loft
its,
favour
, there
is
no
more ufe
at all
for
it
,
as